Summary 'credible and frightening'

Letter of the day

Hey there, time traveller!This article was published 25/4/2013 (1574 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

The American man of letters E.B. White believed that the press is useful not because of its good character but its diversity. This allows readers the freedom to range around in a huge editorial bouillabaisse and search it for the one element that counts: the truth.

Unfortunately, I found what White said I would in Gwynne Dyer's April 24 column, Climate options -- grim, grimmer, grimmest, the most credible and frightening summary I've ever read of what the future holds for us, even if we do mend our ways.

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A vendor rides his tricycle near a coal-fired power plant in Beijing on April 12.

White was right about the bouillabaisse more than he knew because, as Dyer points out, this time we really are in the soup. Dyer makes that as chillingly clear as a good consommé.

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